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Grand, 1820-X. Melrose, 9532. BREWERY WORKERS TO VOTE ON PENSION WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—It is re ported that the Brewery Workers will vote again on the question of estab lishing the old-age pension and acci dent insurance system. The recent convention, held in Denver, so it is stated, took this ac tion. The same proposition has been voted down by the membership. The establishment of the old-age pension and accident insurance system is re ported to be in co-operation with the United States Brewers' association. Those who favored the proposition at the last referendum vote ask that the matter be given another chance, and the delegates finally decided to resubmit the question to the general membership. PAID ADVERTISEMENT. The mustard plaster can always be depended upon to do something smart. Inserted by John E. Roos, independent candidate for County Com missioner, residing in Duluth. Amount to be paid, $11.00. JOHN E. ROOS. •'s" 3 1'i •V '"•.Tir I am an independent candidate for County Commissioner for the third, fourth and fifth wards of the city of Duluth. I have always stood for high wages for the workingmen. Experience in the grocery business for more than twelv€ years lias shown me that the struggle of the wage earner has been hard. The high cost of living ard the high taxes im posed under present conditions have made me think consid erably of the .hardships that are borne by the working people. I started out early in life as a wage earner in a saw mill, and continued at this work until I acquired a business education. Since then I have been in the grocery business and I have made a success of it. My platform is: I stand for a good, clean, economic business administration. I believe the people ought to receive one dollar's worth of service for every dollar paid in taxes. We want good roads and I believe we ought to have them and, if elected, will see to it that the First District gets its just share of the road fund and that it will -be economically expended so as to do the most good for the people of this District. I have been in active business in this District for twenty years and know every part of it and what it needs. If this is the kind of an administration you want, and if you want a real live wire, one who will be on the job all the time, to represent this District, vote for me. JOHN E. ROOS. Independent Candidate for County Commissioner, First District. Your support will be appreciated, and I promise you to faithfully-render every service required of me. Next to knowing what to do at the right time is to know what not to 3o. Inserted by Lawrence A. Gunderson, Amount to be paid $5.00. POSITIONS OPEN FOR PRINTERS IN MANILLA WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Exami nations have just been held by the civil service commission in this city and every field station of the commis sion to secure a list of eligibles for positions as printers in the Philippine service. Printers in this service are paid a salary of $2,000 a year, or $38.46 a week. At the end of six months this salary is automatically increased to $2,250 a year, with a prospect of fur ther promotion to $2,500 a year. PAID ADVERTISEMENT. I AM ON THE STUMP iXditoMwi Printers in the Philippine service must have executive ability and the ability to impart their knowledge to the craft of Filipino workmen Their tasks are purely supervisory, as the natives do the work. After three years in the Philippines those on the rolls can be transferred to the classified service in the states upon application. Some men get as much real pleas ure out of chewing a toothpick as others do smoking a 10-cent cigar. Lester Park, Duluth, Minn. The large size of this county makes it impossible for me to meet all the voters, and I take this method of announcing my candidacy for the office of Register of Deeds for St. Louis County. My early life was spent on a farm in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, and have lived in this county for the past twenty-five years, during all of which time I have been actively engaged in business, and for fifteen years have been the proprietor of the pa vilions and picnic grounds atLesterPark. Yours truly, Lawrence A. Gunderson. Ai VACATION FOR YEAR EVERYjffi YEARS Williams College Follows Advice Once Given by President Garfield. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Oct. 31.— Humanitarian provisions for the treat ment of individuals seems to be pro gressing in other fields than those oc cupied by the organized industrial forces. Williams college professors will hereafter get a year's vacation every seven years with pay. Funds for carrying out these arrangements have been provided as a gift from a man in New York. President Garfield said: "Teaching is often regarded as an easy profes sion, but the steady pressure under which the teacher labors for nine months in the year is more wearing than intermittent and various de mands. "The usual vacation is reserved for the accomplishment of those tasks which the professor has been com pelled to put aside during the aca demic year, but the vacation is not long enough. "Both teacher and college will be benefited every time a year's leave is taken and taken regularly." S THE WORKER /1 By Berton Braley. I have broken my hands on your granite, I have broken my strength on your steel, I have sweated through years for your pleasure, I have worked like a slave for your weal, And what is the wage you have paid me? You masters and drivers of men— Enough so I come in my hunger To beg for more labor again! I have given my manhood to serve you, I have given my gladness and youth You have used me, and spent me, and crushed me, And thrown me aside without ruth You have shut my eyes off from the sunlight, My lungs from the untainted air, You have housed me in horrible places Surrounded by squalor and care. I have built you the world in its beauty, I have brought you the glory and spoil, You have blighted my sons and my daughters, You have scourged me again to my toil. Yet I suffer it all in my patience For somehow I dimly have known That some day the Worker will con quer In a world that was meant for his own! —Coming Nation. BIG FIREARMS CONCERN CONCEDES UNION RIGHT HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 31.—The strike of the 700 employes of the Colt Patent Firearms Company, where re volvers are manufactured for the United States government, closed re cently with a victory for the men in volved Prior to the strike there had been no organization among the employes, but upon coming out they were or ganized and chartered by the Inter national Association of Machinists, over 500 becoming charter members of the organization. T^he company has agreed to meet a conunittee of the union to take up the question of hours and wages and no discrimination is to be exercised by the company among the men who went out on strike. STREET RAILWAY HEAD DIFFERS FROM WARREN SHERIDAN, Wyo., Oct. 31.—The street railway employes of. this city have organized a union and attached themselves to the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, and embraces all the trainmen employed by the lo cal company. The general manager met with the men shortly after organization and announced that he was not opposed to the formation of a union and ex pected that the relations' between the management and the employes would be harmonious and difficulties arising amicably adjusted. RAILROAD KEY MEN MAKING GREAT GAINS WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—During the last two months agreements have been entered into between the Order of Railroad Telegraphers and eight railroad companies, the provis ions of the agreemeiits carrying in creased wages, and a betterment of conditions. This organization is showing re markable progress for the year 1912 and if the balance of the year holds as many successes in store as the fore part of the year has shown, it will be a record breaker. The teynlcal old bachelor can see no hope for the man who spends $10 in dressing up his child in the hope that it will take a $1.98 prize in a baby show. The man who knows what to do when there is something to be done Is the man for whom there is con stant demand in this busy world and times. The butcher shop is no electric power house, but if you want to get a shock just drop in and ask the price of porterhouse. Why not the smile—a whole mile comes after it? &£ v?*t sff*' AT THE LYCEUM 'THE LITTLEST REBEL" TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY Mr. Farnum in "The Littlest Rebel" will be presented under the direction of A. H. Woods, at the Lyceum thea ter two nights, November 5 and 6. This play was written by Edward Peple and is a civil war drama hand led in a happy, ever pleasing manner, with no effort to treat of rights or wrongs of the great struggle, but a play which its only mission is to pro vide a background for a pretty story, filled with human touch and strains of gentleness that warms the heart. The play is a true reflection of the distress, the dangers and sufferings that beset the southern cause towards the end of the struggle between the north and the south, and a vivid picture of the days when more than ever before did patriotism and brav ery animate the conflicting forces. A family of three, father, mother, and their little daughter, Virgie, con cern the story upon which "The Lit tlest Rebel" is built. The father is a devout follower of the Southern cause, is an army scout and a zealous worker in that hot bed of war that centered the vicinity of Richmond to wards the close of the civil struggle, often does the scout return to his home, which, however, is finally burned by Union soldiers. The mother dies and then the lit tle girl is left alone in a rough cabin by the mountain side to exist as bfcst she can on berries and acorn bread, except for such times when her father can seek her out, disregarding the dangers that surround him when he steals through the Northern lines to bring his little child nourishing food. It is on one of these visits that the scout is pursued by a detail of Union soldiers, and on their approach to the cabin ,he warns his little girl to tell them that he has gone whereup on he hides irr the loft. The door is battered down by the soldier, who, instead of the dangerous scout they have been pursuing, find a little lone ly girl playing with a rag doll. It is not long, however, before the pres ence fthe father is discovered, and he is in imminent peril of being shot. So effectively does the little girl plead, though, and so pitiful is the plight of the father, that the com manding officer of the Union forces, Lieut. Col. Morrison, allows him to escape. Later in the day there is a brisk skirmish between the Northern and Southern forces, and in it the captor and captive are butrayed. There is a court martial and the Northern officer is sentenced to be shot as a traitor and the Southern scout as a spy. But again Virgie, the littlest rebel, comes to the rescue and softens the heart of General Grant himself—and so moves the play to a happy ending. Mr. Farnum is sup ported* by a cast of rare excellence.' RAILWAY CARMEN IN FINE POSITION KANSAS CITY, Oct 31.—Secretary William Weeks^ of Jthe Brotherhood of Railway Carmen! ,of America, re ports that two new lodges have been organized, one at Bell Plaine, la., and another at Farmington, Mass. He also reports that times are prosperous as far as the brotherhood is concerned. There has been posted in St. Paul at the Northern Pacific office, no tices stating that there is work for car laborers and carmen generally. This road is fair to the organized car men, they having estabished a sched ule of^ wages and working conditions on that road. Carmen out of em ployment can no doubt secure work by applying to the Northern Padific office at St. Paul. DOUBLE CROSSED BY BULL MOOSER Continued from Pare 1. weeks before Roosevfelt formally an nounced his candidacy'. Gifford Pin chot insisted that the Brown-Hanna deal be made, and later opposed the indorsement of La Follette by the Ohio progressives, unless his name was coupled with that of Roosevelt. Very early in the year La Follette had lassurances of support from William Allen White, of Kansas, yet a few days later White printed in his paper an editorial entitled "Roosevelt or Bust." The day following Munsey, of the steel trust, printed in big type on the front page of his papers, a signed editorial in which he said: Munsey Gets On Job. Situated as he is, my guess is that Mr. Roosevelt is quite content to let political matters shape themselves up as they will. If no call comes to him to lead the fight he will keep right on having a good time with his work, as he is now doing. But if the call does come he will buckle on his armor and "go to it" with all his old-time energy and impetuosity. As the call did riot come, it was ne cessary to continue the plotting. Roosevelt was overwhelmingly beaten by La Follette in the North Dakota primaries. He was coldly received in Boston. It was soon proved that it would be necessary' for himi to make an aggressive campaign for the nomi nation. So from February 26, when he announced his candidacy, up till the day of the Republican convention, he fought and foujgrht hard for what he said he would "accept" if it Were "tendered" to him. But the thin^ that is chiefly inter esting is that practically all the Roosevelt leaders -were working for Roosevelt, and giving money to his cause, at the Very time that they were supposed to be favorable to La Fol lette. This was true of Munsey. Early in the year Perkins and Roose velt were holding private conferences. Perkins "issued a frank statement," in which he said that he was for Roose velt because "they looked at public questions the same way." Betrayed by His Frfrads. Medill McCormick, while working at the La Follette headquarters, tried to send out a campaign document eulogizing Roosevelt. Dan Hanna, in dicted by the administration on the charge of rebating, did his best to turn Ohio to Roosevelt. And so of is, in the barest outline, the intrigue. And Hanna, Munsey and Flinn gave $439,513 to the Roosevelt fund. It is assumed that Perkins belongs in their class, and if so, these four men con tributed $600,000 out of the $850,000 so far accounted for to make Roose velt president. Why? Finally, it is to be said that the tes timony of these men is conclusive proof of La Follette's charges, for they admit that they were giving mo ney and support to Roosevelt at the very time that La Follette was sup posed to be the progressive candidate. The demand was that La Follette de ceived and betrayed the people by be coming a mere cover for Roosevelt's candidacy—which would not have been avowed had the "deal" gone through. But the Wisconsin man re fused, and so the Roosevelt people had to come out Into the open. It is a very ugly story—and it is true. FEAR MOTORMEN MAY BOSS JOBS Continued from rage i. the very purpose of the ordinance. Alderman Hoar's tproposition was in troduced as a measure in the inter est of public safety, and if the Hogan rider had been added to the ordi nance it would have said that it is dangerous to run a street car when there is no strike, and motormen must then be examined as to their •competency, but it is not dangerous to run a street car during a strike, and therefore the street railway, com pany may be given the privilege of employing any old kind of motormen so long as the cars are kept in opera tion The council chamber was packed to the doors with workingmen. The radical Socialist was there with his class-conscious philosophy. The con servative trade unionist was also there and both united in demanding of the members of the city council that they serve the greatest ntfmber and pass the ordinance in the inter est of the safety of the general public. Cards Stacked Against Men However, it would have made no difference if every citizen of Duluth was present. No ordinance licensing motormen would have been passed by the aldermen. -"The cards were stacked against the men for the com pany several hours before the meet ing was called. Every alderman in the city was button-holed by "men of influence" who did not have the courage to come out in the open and meet the issue like men. Alderman Hogan would not permit of a fair consideration of his amend ments, nor would he concede to the friends of the ordinance the right usually accorded in such cases of a division vote on each of his proposed amendments so that the aldermen might go on record on every propo sition and have the good features of the ordinance separated from its lad features. The matter will be considered by the council at its next meeting. In the meantime an effort is being made by the friends of the ordinance to get it amended in proper shape and each alderman will be requested to vote on the question upon its merits and not because he is influenced by men a,nd interests who should not be concerned in the consideration of any such legislative measure. Human Life Jeopardized The opponents of the ordinance de clare there is no necessity for its passage. They seem to want a dem onstration that life and property is unsafe because of the fact that in competent and imprudent motormen are in charge of street cars. Pray, how many people will it be necessary to kill to make it manifest that hu- a Here's a very 94x80 Doable White Cotton Blankets* with pink 'and blue borders regular price $2.00, tfSf 9(| removal sale price «PJ-**'*' A Laige Assortment of Cotton Blankets, sizes 66x 76, and 64x76, in white, tan and gray colors reg ular price |1.36 and $1.50. Your choice at QK*, this removal sale' at fov Furnish Your Home Now and Save Half £4^ man life is in jeopardy? Two men have already been killed and any number have been seriously injured. In each fatal accident the cars were running at such a wreckless speed that they were not brought to a com plete stop until they had run many hundred feet beyond the spot where the accidents occurred. Over in Superior where the com mission government passed a license ordinance, but which is not in op eration, a car load of people came within a foot of being destroyed when a Soo line freight train grazed the fender of a street car. The motor man was attempting to run the car across the railroad tracks without taking the precaution to ascertain whether or not a train was approach ing. Arguments Were Amusing The arguments- of some of the Dus luth aldermen against the ordinance were somewhat amusing. One aider man stated that he was against the ordinance because it was not drawn properly, and when the friends of the ordinance attempted to put it in proper shape, he voted against every favorable amendment as he did against the final passage of the ordi nance. The crowd became impatient at the many subterfuges resorted to by the members of the council who attempted to explain their position and threats of the recall were frequently made. Several Democratic members of the council who heretofore have pro fessed great friendship for "the work ingmen, voted .with the" opponents of labor against the ordinance. No man blames Alderman Scott for his posi tion. He has been a consistent op ponent of almost everything the workingman wants for these many years. His position was known in advance and all sides respect him for his consistency, although they may have no sympathy with his judg ment. Hicken Might Be Forgiven Alderman Hicken might be forgiven for his vote against the ordinance be cause he was not selected by the You 11 Do Better at Kelly Blankets at Removal Prices Note the Great Reductions and Act Quickly Wool Blankets OxL"?-50 $3.48 PIIjLOW SPECIAL—Kelly PAID ADVERTISEMENT^ Amount to be paid $5.00. Published by and in behalf of Willlail J. North of Duluth, Minn. To the Voters of the Fifty First Legislative Districti seasonable bargain. Wool Blankets size 66 by 80 inches weight 4^. lbs. to the pair. All the newest colorings plaids, including the A O new tan shades. Get a pair. Removal price, per pair {p^/tTO Good Bedding at Removal Prices— Owing- to- the press of business I may be unable to personally call upon all the voters in this district between now and election, and I take this means of Introducing myself and an nouncing my candidacy for the leg islature from the Fifty-first district I believe in and favor the princi ples laid down in the National and State Democratic Platforms. and I especially hope to be one of the leg islators to vote for the Initiative. Referendum and Recall. I am unalterably opposed to all Special Interests in politics in this state, and if elected I shall be abso lutely a free agent to faithfully serve the people. I shall at all times carefully guard and represent the interests of North ern Minnesota and its people. I am in favor of and will votft and. work for the passage of a Working men's Compensation Act that will place the full financial burden of -the risks of industry upon the industry Itself and not upon the workingmen. I will not conduct a party fieht my contest will be for principle, and on this basis I) respectfully ask your cooperation and support. If the prin ciples for which I stand meet with your approval will you kindly indi cate it by giving me your support and vote on election day? William J. North Candidate for the Legislature, Fifty first District. workingmen. He is one of that an cient school of thought who believes in the survival of the fittest,* holding that the law of suppiy a*»tit demand will govern everything that the work ingman requires. Alderman Makowski of the Second ward, a former member of the SMOKE: Pur^dora and Geo. Taylor KEY WBJST DOMESTIC CIGARS Made By Zenith Cigar Company MATT ETTTNGER, Prop. 24 East First Street. 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